[Bilimsel Haber] CFP: Cultural Studies Now: An International Conference (UK) (11/1/06; 7/19/07-7/22/07)

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CALL FOR PAPERS AND PRESENTATIONS

CULTURAL STUDIES NOW: an international conference

Docklands Campus, University of East London, UK, 19-22 July 2007

Plenary speakers will include Ien Ang, Rosi Braidotti, Kuan-Hsing Chen,
Judith Halberstam, Stuart Hall, Dick Hebdige, Doreen Massey.

Cultural Studies, as the paradigmatic interdisciplinary project, has
always been defined by its relationships to proximate sets of ideas,
practices and institutions. As Cultural Studies has grown and matured,
its borders have multiplied. Cultural Studies has affected and been
affected by contiguous disciplines, academic and non-academic
institutions, political movements and projects, and creative practices
of many kinds.

The question now is: has Cultural Studies been expanded, relocated and
disseminated to the point where it no longer has a coherent identity? Is
there a future for Cultural Studies as such? This major international
conference will consider these issues by addressing a number of
connected topics:

- Cultural Studies and politics: Cultural Studies was once closely
allied with socialism, feminism and antiracism. Is this still the case?
Has Cultural Studies lost its political edge? Has it moved to the right?
Or is it finding a home in the latest new social movements?

- Cultural Studies and its disciplinary neighbours: history,
literature, sociology, philosophy, geography, visual culture,
psychoanalysis, political science, postcolonial theory, economics,
environmental studies, science and technology studies; film and media
studies, queer studies and popular music studies are among the
disciplines and fields that have contributed to and drawn on Cultural
Studies. Has Cultural Studies been a good neighbour?

- Cultural Studies in the public sphere: what has been the influence
of Cultural Studies outside the academy? How has the corporate universe
made use of it? Has the selective uptake of Cultural Studies in a range
of institutional contexts, including government, been positive in its
effects?

- Cultural Studies and creative practice: what are the actual and
potential relationships between Cultural Studies and other forms of
creative practice? What has been the impact of Cultural Studies on
cultural practices and vice versa? How has this been played out?

- Cultural Studies and national contexts: does Cultural Studies
occupy different institutional and intellectual spaces in different
national, international, and global contexts? Is there a cosmopolitan
Cultural Studies or have local conversations predominated? Is there any
continued relevance for the Birmingham CCCS models?


Today, when Cultural Studies risks responding to these challenges by
collapsing into theoretical obscurantism or technocratic ineffectuality,
we at the University of East London believe that there is a place for a
Cultural Studies which is politically committed and relentlessly
experimental in its intellectual, institutional and creative practices.

To this end, we invite contributions which address these topological and
methodological questions directly or which present examples of current
work in the field. We welcome proposals for papers and presentations
engaging with the full range of current themes and issues in
contemporary cultural studies, cultural theory and cultural production.

Panels will normally consist of three twenty-minute presentations.
Abstracts (max 200 words) and biographical notes (max 150 words) for
individual papers and/or suggestions for panels or alternative formats
to be sent by 1st November 2006 to:

Culturalstudiesnow at uel.ac.uk <mailto:Culturalstudiesnow at uel.ac.uk>

School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies
University of East London
University Way
London E16 2RD

Established in 1985 as the first ever Department of Cultural Studies in
the UK and twice awarded the high rating of 5 in the British Research
Assessment Exercise, the University of East London is a
widely-recognised centre for research and teaching in the Cultural
Studies field. Now part of the School of Social Sciences, Media and
Cultural Studies, the subject area is located in the University's
newly-built waterside Docklands Campus, where the conference will take
place. Accommodation will be available on campus and in hotels in Canary
Wharf and Central London. The campus is sited within easy reach of the
arts and cultural scene of East London and is well-served by public
transport. Details of associated cultural programmes and London-wide
events of interest will be available on the conference website
http://www.uel.ac.uk/culturalstudiesnow




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